The Culture Where Darker Skinned Children Are Born With Blond Hair
The black-skinned islanders with naturally blond children
While most black people have natural black or dark brownish hair, you’d agree with me that it’s quite unusual to see a dark-skinned person with naturally blond hair as that’s commonly found amongst Americans and Europeans. This is a factor that makes the Melanesian people unique.
The Melanesians
The Melanesian people are indigenous inhabitants of Melanesia — a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean — that extends from the western end of the Pacific Ocean, the Arafura Sea and down to Fiji — with are four independent countries; Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea in the region.
The name “Melanesia” comes from the Greek word, melas meaning “black” and nesoi meaning “islands”. It was named by Jules Dumont d’ Urville a French navigator who visited the island in 1832 because of the dark skin of the people. Jules reportedly named the three main ethnic and geographical regions that formed the Pacific: Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia.
Until the European invasion, the people were known to have practiced cannibalism, kidnapping, slavery, and head-hunting. Now, they are predominantly Christians, since…
